UK+Growing+Up

Different religions become enter adulthood at different ages. also other ethnic groups that are not necessarily religious.

__**Non Religious**__ (Under changes due to proof reading)

In the U.K if you are not religious becoming an adult is down to the adolescence. Other countries and religions might have rules that that their child has to abide to if they want to be an adult, even if they don't want to.

Also we like to work with our parents jobs which in some ways is like work experience. But in this country we do get advised all the time at school on the web and even on the TV. Many people telling us not to smoke, wait until the right age to have sex they're telling us constantly.

Most of England's crime happens in and around London and towards the northern parts of England. Around about 35% of this crime is caused by young offenders aged around 9 - 18. With London being a congested city there is more room for crime. London is also home to a lot of the U.K's young mothers after having young sex and could of been from a poor background.

__**JUDAISM**__

In the Jewish religion the boys were generally the only gender to have a rite of passage to adulthood; this was the Bar Mitzvah. Bar Mitzvahs can be held when a boy is over the age of thirteen, although most are held when they have just turned thirteen. This process to adulthood consists of the boy reading several passages from the Torah (the Jewish holy book, the old Testament)

Now days there is a female version of a Bar Mitzvah called a Bat Mitzvah, this is because women are regarded more important to the Jewish religion than they used to be. The Bat Mitzvah is done in the same way as a Bar MItzvah (see above)

__**Christianity**__

Most Christians are baptized when they are born but some are baptized when they are older. When a baptized Christian is around 16 they can choose whether they want to stay with the church. If they do they are regarded an adult in Christianity.